Richard Hasen
Rick Hasen in 2018 atSouth by Southwest
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BA) University of California, Los Angeles (MA,PhD,JD)
Known for	Legislation Election law Campaign finance

Richard L. Hasen is anAmerican legal scholar and law professor at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. He is an expert inlegislation,election law andcampaign finance.^[1]

Hasen received aBachelor of Arts with highest honors (inMiddle Eastern studies) from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1986.^[1] He received aMaster of Arts with distinction (inpolitical science) in 1988, and aDoctor of Philosophy in political science in 1992, both from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles.^[1] He received hisJuris Doctor fromUCLA School of Law in 1991, and was elected to theOrder of the Coif.^[1]

Hasen was alaw clerk to JudgeDavid R. Thompson of theUnited States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 1991 to 1992 before joining thelaw firm of Horvitz & Levy LLP, inEncino, California.^[1]

He taught at theChicago-Kent College of Law from 1994 to 1997.^[2] In 1998 he took a position atLoyola Law School, Los Angeles; in 2005, he was named by Loyola as the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law. He left Loyola to become a professor at theUniversity of California, Irvine School of Law in July 2011.^[1]

Hasen was one of the founding co-editors of the quarterlyElection Law Journal, apeer reviewed publication on election law.^[1] He also runsElectionLawBlog, a blog focusing on election law,election security,campaign finance,voting rights,ballot initiatives,redistricting, and other legal issues.^[3][4][5][6]

In 2009,^[1] Hasen was elected to theAmerican Law Institute.^[7] In 2013, theNational Law Journal included Hasen on its list of the "100 most influential lawyers in America."^[8]

In 2022, Hasen joined the faculty atUCLA School of Law.^[9][10]

• Hasen, Richard L. (August 14, 2012).The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown.Yale University Press.ISBN 978-0-300-18421-1.JSTOR j.ctt32bft8.OCLC 808341874.
• Hasen, Richard L. (January 12, 2016).Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections. Yale University Press.ISBN 978-0-300-21674-5.OCLC 936378410.^[11]
• Hasen, Richard L. (March 20, 2018).The Justice of Contradictions: Antonin Scalia and the Politics of Disruption. Yale University Press.ISBN 978-0-300-22864-9.OCLC 1002129887.^[12]
• Hasen, Richard L. (February 4, 2020).Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy. Yale University Press.doi:10.2307/j.ctvw1d4ww.ISBN 978-0-300-24819-7.JSTOR j.ctvw1d4ww.OCLC 1111981022.S2CID 243732678.
• Hasen, Richard L. (March 8, 2022).Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics―and How to Cure It. Yale University Press.ISBN 978-0-300-25937-7.
• Hasen, Richard L. (February 20, 2024).A Real Right to Vote: How a Constitutional Amendment Can Safeguard American Democracy.Princeton University Press.ISBN 9780691257716.^[13]

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